I'm only speculating here but I imagine Experimental Music was given its widest possible audience with 2001 - with Kubrick using selections from avant-garde composer György Ligeti's work - the eerie choral music featured as the shuttle journeys to the moon base, and later on for the star gate sequence. This is the kind of "difficult" music most people would run a mile from. (I'm thinking also of The Beatles, and their Stockhausen-influenced patchwork Revolution No.9 on the White Album heard in countless unsuspecting homes across the world)
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